Professor D Murthy was suffering from cancer.

An ailing professor at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) died waiting for an ambulance for over six hours on Tuesday.

According to reports, 64-year-old Professor D. Murthy was a cancer patient, and doctors had advised that he be shifted to Delhi from the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (JNMC), which is situated on AMU campus, after his condition deteriorated following a surgery on Monday.

"An ambulance wasn't available. There was no coordination within the hospital. What was the need to fill up the form?" NDTV quoted university's spokesperson S. Peerzada as saying.

Murthy, who was the chairman of AMU's department of modern Indian languages, had been suffering from a stomach ache for past several days and was admitted to JNMC on Sunday morning where he was diagnosed with advanced cancer.